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Shelters from the storm: A note on the geography of hurricane shelters in Barbados, 1982
1Department of Geography University of the West Indies Mona Kingston 7 Jamaica West Indies.
Abstract:
Barbados, a small island of 166 square miles in the Caribbean, with a population of 246,416 persons, has a total of 177 emergency shelters with a known capacity of 20,623 persons. The average shelter capacity is 117 persons and the total known shelter capacity represents 8.4% of the population. The spatial arrangement of the grade I shelters, as seen relative to the 1980 population census map by grouped enumeration districts, reveals that there are many areas and persons, who, in time of emergency, will not be able to avail themselves of the protection of a shelter.
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